Matthew Booth Plays the Long Game - a podcast by Zayn Nabbi

Matthew Booth’s towering frame was once an imposing sight in Bafana Bafana’s back four, as the Sundowns star become a popular member of the national team ahead of the 2010 World Cup. In this pod the "big man" speaks candidly about his experiences in the game, the importance of financial planning, his goals to coach professionally, and about why he thinks Pitso Mosimane deserves another shot at the Bafana job.

 

Co-hosts: Zayn Nabbi and Courtney Freese

Guest: Matthew Booth (Former South African defender)

 

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Show Notes

00:00 – Intro

04:30 – Learning about football and politics in Fish Hoek

09:00 – Career highlights at Cape Town Spurs and at Sundowns

11:00 – Patrice Motsepe’s “strange” transfer policy at Sundowns

14:15 – How the "second economy" has corrupted South African football

22:00 – Preparing for football’s “afterlife”  

29:20 – A failed move to West Ham leads Matthew to Russia

33:00 – Impressions of Brazil legend Carlos Alberto Parreira  

41:00 – Pitso Mosimane deserves another shot with Bafana

42:00 – A future in coaching one day?

 

Duration: 46:40

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